Probabilistic Diffraction Limited Imaging Through Turbulence

A. Englander; M. Slatkine; R. Karoubi; D. Bensimon

doi:10.1117/12.7973063

1 February 1983 Probabilistic Diffraction Limited Imaging Through Turbulence

A. Englander, M. Slatkine, R. Karoubi, D. Bensimon

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 22, Issue 1, 221145 (February 1983). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.7973063

Abstract

The possibility of considerably increasing the resolution of an extended image taken through a turbulent atmosphere by selecting random "lucky" diffraction limited exposures out of many normal-turbulence degraded-short exposures is experimentally explored. For an imaging aperture D, larger than the atmospheric spatial coherence length ro, the probability P of getting a diffraction limited short exposure image of a point source is found to be exp[-0.6(D/r0)2 ]. This result is in agreement with Fried's prediction. The angular isoplanatism is measured to be -X/ro. However, observed random wavefront tilts scramble the diffraction limited picture elements in an isoplanatic patch, thus complicating the probabilistic imaging method.

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A. Englander, M. Slatkine, R. Karoubi, and D. Bensimon "Probabilistic Diffraction Limited Imaging Through Turbulence," Optical Engineering 22(1), 221145 (1 February 1983). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.7973063

Published: 1 February 1983

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